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il was an entirely different matter.
IL was built either through forests Of
Douglas pine, tall but Of small girth,
which were constantly beieg blown
upon the wires by the strong winds,
or across stretches of open country,
where in winter the snow would
drift above the tops of the poles.
The labor and cost OF keep ng such
line open was fearful to contemplate,
although doubtless it would have
been insisted upon if the Atlantic
cable had not been successfully laid.
The principal point of traDsship-
ment of provisions aud material tor
the North American division was
Fort Simpson, the chief trading post
of the Hud on Bay Company, on the
Northwestern coast. Thence trans
portstion up the Stickeen river was
effected by means Of the steamer
Mumford, owned by the telegraph
company, and by means Of canoes
manned by Indians, who proved very
valuable aud efficient workers. The
last station established was Fort
Stager, and similar stations we're
built at short intervals along the en-
tire 900 miles of the line as con-
structed.
Naturally the projectors and d.
rectcrs of this gigantic failure dis
liked to make public the full story
OF their pecuniary loss and mental
chagrin. The notes, maps and Off
cial documents of the expedition
were, therefore, carefully stcreted
and retained by the directors, aud no
authorized publication in regard to 1t
has ever been made. This was a
disposition of them which was per-
fectly proper. since the scheme was
no stock jobbing operation. No
shares we're sold to the public. The
entire cost was paid by few Of the
veal hest stockholders in the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, who
have bravely concealed their oss
and modification from the public
ever since. Various estimates have
been made OF the amount of money
spent, but none of them have placed
il below 100000. The cost of the
North American division was $780,
600. z. l.. WHITE,
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CHANCERY SALE
-0F-
REAL ESTATE.

No. 1929, r -''F"-Chancery Court OF Shell
D, County-ststs Of Tennessee, for use,
etc, VS.. W. Z. Butler ct al.
OY virtue of an Inierloeutory decree for
u sale entered in the shsye cause on the
18th das OF February. 1887, NJ. b. Sc, page
$50, will sell at publ, au ction, to the high
est bid5sr, in front of the Clerk and Masters
Office, NJ in street entrance to the court
house o, Shelby count, Memphis, Tenn. ION
Saturday, March 20, 1857,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Memphis, Shelby coun-
ty, Tenn, to-wit:
BegiI nirg on the east side OF the first alley
cas- Of Third street at IT'S Intersection with
the south sid Of Jefertou s'reei; thence east
with the toutn line OF JET. ron street. 1854
t'et; thence south l4S1a feet to. an alley /;
thence west with tho north side Of said alley
1861 feet to the & st alley east OF Third
street; thence with said ley 1857 feet TO
ihe begin ming.
note nearing interest, with security; lien re-
tanned; rode % ption barred.
The pu chaser will be required to execute
the note Immediately or the property will
be offered for sale sgaio a, the next to the
last hid. This March 3, 1887
81 MCDOWELL, CLERK and Master.
By D. F. Coleman, Deputy Q. and M.
" II n q w Heiskeil sol ,citorE
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GRANGER Y SALE
-OF-
R E a r. E 81 II a IL "

No. 1882, R.-Chancery Court of Shelb!
ounty-R Nj. White VS.. thomas Banja
min ct ais.
10y virtue of an inter ooutory decree 70,
y sale entered in the above. 's1se on tn
2lst day of December, 1885, NJ. B. IS, pag,
545. / will sell, at public auction, to th'
h ghes, bidder, in front Of the Clerk anC
Mastor'r office, at the Main street entranc'
Of the courthouse OF Shelby couoty, Mem
IA nrdsy, March 30. 1857,
within legal hours, ths .ollpwing described
property, situated in She 10y county, Tenn.
and in the Tax nE Nistrc' uf Shelby county
Tenn formerly tho ty OF Nem his, tO-wit
An undivid d one ha,f # the remaiode
interes stsublect to ths ilie estate OF y. n
II mel of two certain lots or parcels OF land
kn,wn as los Ii and II, block /, Of A
Wrighps subdi isiOn, ss er rlan records
IN D at book l, page 6, egi tors Gthoe
Shelby ounty, Tennessee, g. lot having
front of 81 feet on the east side OF Dayie ave
nue. and running back between parallel line
l5J feet to an all-y.
Terms of Sals-0n a credit Of : months
note W tn security; lien retained; redemp
ton barred.
This March 8, 1851.
s. /. NCD0W ELL, Clerk and Master.
By B. F. Coleman, d. G. end M.
Ii. T. Dix, Sol. for oomps't.
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Trustees sale.

TNDER and by virtue of certain deed II
" trust executed on the 29tb day of July,
1876, by Q. 4. Vance and othe's to the Ut der
,ignsd a. trustt es, VIII CHI is duly recoI ded in
Shelby CO Inty, in nook No lbz, page "a,
&C., TO which reference is here nj sde, default
in the payment OF the ndebedness thereby
secured having been maze. and ut the ro-
q4est OF the benefciaries therein. we will, on
saiur dRy, April 20, 1857,
al the southwest corner of vain and Madi-
county, Tennessee. within lessl hours, sell
to he b CHEST bidder, for C IN, the following
descr bed real and persoqsl property, to wit
. F.rst-ThIrty- eight hsndred and ninety
shares (Sse0l o the capiral stock al the Qua
dslupe y Calvo Mining Company Gpcorpo;
rn,ed in Tennessee), par value, one hundred
dollars each. This stock will be sold in lots
of 10 SHARES, or $4,000 EACH,
Second-Als', ore hundred sbaroe o. saU q
stock, subject to claim of Ole Eeattie, now in
litisation.
Third-Also. the following described real
estate, situated in Shelly county, Tonnes
see, viz: being the touIheast corner of the
interse ton OF the Shelby County turnpike
with Mclean avenue, con aiaing four acres,
and being the same proper purchased by
U. f. Vance from the estate of lssac Hsy1cn,
Also, lots No. five, six, seven ana eight, OF
the McGrath sub Tvs on, c0nt~ihlnx hvt
aces e,ch, ana situated On the est Of Nc
Lean avenue EXTENDED. Also, lot o. three
OF raid McGrath gu division, bounded on the
south by he Shelby County tUrnrike. con.
tanning four and one half acres, adjoininf
the above OTIS on the norih. Also, lots No
1856, 81, Isl, A, 81, and ia, as LAID down OF
the original y 40 and survey of the town o.
Corinth, ia Mississippi.
Fourth-Also a lot of ground situated in
tho 4. king District Of Shelby co nty, Ten
nessee, commonly called CITY OF Memphis
on the west side OF Shelby street, beginn,n nj
at n point fifty feet south OF Huling street
thence south thir y-fve 'eet; thence ives
two hundred feet: thence north thirty five
ieet; thence east two hui dTed feet to the be
ginning, being part OF 10 7, of block y
hav ne upon it now n tw0'story and base
nent brick residence.
fifth-Also, ore hundred shares Of Thu
cap tai stock Of the Pioneer t,ott,n Mill Com
pany, of the pr value OF 500 etch.
SAFES wiz be mad o. this property in TIL
order in which il is des bed.
Title believed to be good, but We Will sci
and convey OILY as trustees
Memphis, Tenn, March Z, 1885,.
DAVID II, / 0ST0N,
w. MILLER,
LUKE E. WRIGHT,
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SPEAKER CARLISLE
Believes tho President VIII Call
Congress Together.

WASHINGTON, March l2.-Speaker
Carlisle is quoted as saying that he
believes the President will call Con-
gress together some time in the fall
10 order to provide against the accu-
mutation of the surplus alter the 3
per cent. bonds have all been retired.
Of course the Speaker thinks that
the only way to reduce the surplus is
to buy the reduction OF the customs
taxes. 1t is believed, however, that
if Mr.. Randall is removed from tie
Craftsmanship OF the Committee on
Appropriations that the provisions
for coast defences will go long way
in this direction. There is certain to
be an effort made in the next Con.
gress to pass a general pensi bill
that will use up SIS, 100000 to $780,
600 600 annually,
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MIND READING PERFORMANCES
Are Merely Muscle Reading FER
for maDcet-AB Explanation.


Rochester Herald: Chas. Howard
Montague is a Boston newspaper
man 20 is duplicating in New York.
Irving Bishops mind reading per-
formances. After he has success
fully accomplished what Bishop does
he explains in q brief lecture the
secret of lis own and Bishops
achievements. OF course, as Car
penler and others explained years
ago, the so called mind reading is
simply muscle readin0. Having
trained his sense Of touch and feel
ing for some time, as Bishop doubt
less has for years, NJ ontague need
only take his leaders by the hand or
wrist and note the delicate involun-
tary motions produced through the
consciousness OF the person
who knows the hiding place OF
the article searched tor, to be able
to know whether he is going 10
the right direction or the wrong one.
Bishops performances are extraor-
binary and may we'll excite the
wonder even of the experienced
scientists who have attended his ex-
hibitions; but judging from the
newspaper reports, Montague,
though he is comparatively a
new hand at the business, is
very little behind the originator
Of the system. 1t is in calling his
work mind reading" that Bishop
deceives the public. In a sense it is
mind reading, just as listening to
speech or reading from a book is
such; it is the Interpretation
of what is passing in another
persons mind on given sub
ject by noting the involuntary
exercise of the muscles. The pull
in certain direction may be ever SO
delicate; it may not be perceptible
to persons of ordinary seDsitiveness
to touch or ordinary discernmeut;
but it is just as really material i'm
preston as if powerful jerk or a
prolonged and powerful haul
had been exercised. 1t may
be cocj ctured that some of
Bishops performances are not sus-
ceptible of explanation on this
grOund-that, for instance, in which
he gives the number of bank note
which he has not seen and no one
has ever told him. But Montague
shows that the solution Of this trick
depends upon The same key as
that of the others. This ex-
PLANTATION does not, it seems to
US, detract from the interest of
Bishops performances. The latter
serve TO show, il nothing more, how
closely associated are the mind and
body, and suggest in new form the
strange mystery of their union-a
mystery than which there is none
greater or more unexplainable in all
the dogmas of the creeds.
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front and some portion of each side
in one large plain space OF the goods;
then, commencing beneath the
basque, and right on the hip, is a
broad, straight panel of plush, with
large ornamental buttons sewed
upon it all the way down. The back
drapery, after a puff above the tour
nure, falls as straight and plain as
the front, and The whole skirt is one
which meets excellently the require
ments of walking dress even though
the trimming is little stiff. The
latter is sometimes agreeably varied
By the substitution of a pointed
panel of striped plush on each side
q II NJ
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CHANCERY SALE
ne Re AL Il q II a. TE

No. $3.50, R.-Cbancery Court of Shelb
uniy-ttate If TED nessee, for use, etc
vs.. John Gent ct ais.
pY virtue of an interlocutory decree e
= sale entered in the above cause on 81 q
renewed March s, 1885 NJ, B. 81, page 5Ss
/ will sell t public auction, to the high
est bidder, 10 front { the Clerk and Master
ONCE, at tho Main street eutrance OF "
courthouse Of Shelby county Memphif
Tenn, on ,ss-
within legal hours, the following describe
property, situated in the TexinE District I
Shelby county, Tom, to wits
North part Of lot ST. IOnting 2474 feet o
the east side of Front stree southeast col
ner Of Market street First AaId, By dept
o 1AS1z feet.
Terms of sale--0n r credit Of mouths
notO wi h approved sectri y bearisg i o.;
barred. This March 3, 1887.
5. / MCO0N ELL, CLERK and Master
BY I B. CALDWELL d. Q: and ". ~, n,
Metcalt Il Walker, 4 Ii. * O. W. Hell
kell. snlic tors.
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The expensive routine of the or
ganization of the expedition, with
its large staff and, the cost of sup
porting in San Francisco and at sea
aud on the land the hundre DIS OF men
enrolled, caused an enormous and
rapid drain upon the finances OF his
hackers in New York, who, if they
had Tor an instant supposed that the
third attempt 10 lay the Atlantic ca
bic would have been attended with
success, would never have thought
Of undertaking it, Aud even it the
osblo had failed So a means OF com
muuioation, enouCh was learned by
the working Of Mai. Conveys party
~ prove that no overland line would
have been practicable, no matter
how great tho expenditure upon it.
The rugged inequalities OF the N orth
Pacific coast were such as to drive
the construction parties far into the
Interior, where a series OF valleys
and table lands presented no very
serious obstacles 10 the construction
Of tho line; but the maintenance VI
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-13

The Very Rev. Peter Beckx, supe-
rior general of the Jesuit order
throughout the world, and author Of
the well known Catholic work, The
Month of Mary, died in Rome on
Friday in the 92d year of his age. He
has been quite i'll for a long time,
and has been only nominal head of
the order for several years, his duties
having been performed by Father
Auderlidy, his coadjutor, who will
probably be elected to succeed him.
Father John Peter Beckx is a Bel
gian, having been bora in Sichem in
1895. He was admitted into the So
ciety of Jesuit, in 1919, and on the
conversion of Duke Ferdinand Of
Auhalt to Catholicity was made con.
fessor to the Count. His marked
abilities soon brought him into prom
iuence in Austria, and to him is
chiefly due the reinstatement of the
Jesuits in that country. He was
elected as general Of the order TO sue.
coed Father Roothap in 1853, and
but for the strict rule that iorblds
the elevation OF Jesuits to ecclesias-
teal honors, would have been long
since raised to the episcopacy.
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DREAR DEsoLATIoN IN THE BURNT
DISTRICT,

DID hlOl.
The exploration which was to
preoede all this work of construction
was originally ordered by Buckley to
be under the control of Robert Kin
necutt, an associate and collaboration
of the Smithsonian Institution, aud
who was at that time the only
American who had any personal
knowledge of the part Of British
America and Alaska to be explored,
He was an enthusiastic young natu-
ralist, who had then but recently re-
turned from the Yukon river by the
way of the Mackenzie river and
Hudson bay posts, He brought back
TO tho Smithsonian an enormous col
lection of natural history and ethuo-
logical specimens. The directors OF
the telegraph company in New
York. hearing of Kinuecott through
Prof. Baird, naturally wished to
avail themselves of his knowledge,
and after meeting him resolved to
put him in charge Of the ex-
plorations.
Klnne,ottleft New York in March,
1865, with a picked party Of his own
selection of seven men. They crossed
the Isthmus by the Nicaraguan route,
but were delayed moro than two
weeks in transit. kinnecott could
not be restrained from making nat
ural history collections atall hours of
the day or night, and being stricken
down with Panama fever, the tounda-
ton was laid Of the illness that
proved fatal to him on the Yukon
river a few months later, and which
prevented him from carrying on any
of che cherished plans f tne expedi-
ton. His party was broken up at
San Francisco and its organization
virtually amounted 10 nothing,
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TaE NV YORK FASHIONS
THE CUT GIVEN BELOW Is A
FAIR EXPONENT
or the General Taste In Spri g
Dresses->treet Toilets OF Beau.
tiful Designs aud Material.
lcoRREsroxDEscE OF rHn APpEAL.l

New YORK, March 1.-THE mild
invigorating days of early spring
make walk in the open air lux
ury, and street costumes engage the
attention of everyone. The models
shown are not strikingly novel in de-
sign, but they are all pretty, aud the
one shown below is fair expo
nent Of the general taste. 1t is
developed in a plain dark wooden
material, which forms, as will be
seen, the basque, drapery and apron.
The underskirt is a plaid velvet
which seems particularly appropri
ate, while the weather is not suised
to the adoption of liPh er materials.
The same yet forms the spare cut
revers and the cuffs, while plain dark
velvet appears in the vest.
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Lord Re ,ennsneId

Cbe'ished L & sh mimroses as the
sweetts at of flowers. Blu neither 10 ts,
lilies, bu tercups are sweeter than
the mouth o. thst fair one who u! 8
SozoDoST daily to keep her testh white
as the driven snow and her gums red
a. June Joses
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SRERIFF'S SALE
Oh
R EAE ESTATE.

DUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, Tha
L BY virtue OF fer taci1s Ia. me direeWl
from the honorable Chance,y CourL OF hnl
by count, Tennessee, in the cass o j. n
rioudfit VS.. 3. Y Harieil ct nj, judgm1nsL|
rendered on the I'd day o December, lsaq
for the sum of Two HUI dred and EishteeI
Dollars aud 70 100 cents, with interest AM
cost OF suit, to satisfy said Jud,nentI etcI
l will,
ON the I'd day OF ADriI, 1857,
In Ieaal hours, in front of the Courthouse Il
the II, King District Of She hv county, Tenn
, roceed 10 soil, 10 tho CHEST bidder, Il
cash, the following described property, to
wit:
in the Ninih Civil Distric Of helby county
TenU essee, and bonn cd tnl0ws: On q,
north by tho lands of 10 llarrell, on I'd
nth by the lands Of Henry Ruuedge, n
the cast ty the lands o! Mrs n. A Locke
and on the west by the auds o. David
llaklo, containing one hundred and min
acfes moro or less.
: Levied on as tho properly Of defendanl
uieH'' - '''''' "4u 'O' w. D. CANNON,
Sheriff of Sh lbs county. Tenn,
BY T. T. MCDONALD. ID, putty Shert.
Memphis, sth day February. 1881.
u. 3. Barnes, Attorney Tor pla,ntin.
Public Administta lOr's sole.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
IN wi !, as admins rator o to estate &
Patrick Roper, doceR'ed, on
Sturdy, ssR EN- 10, 1857,
At IL O'Clock NJ, in front Of the eourthou
door, proceed TO sell, ~ the highest and be-
bidder for cash, two gold watches and on
~! OIN LEAGUE, Pablo Ad4inistEa.sI
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-09
Missionary Jubilee.

The missionary jubilee exercises
commemorative Of the arrival here Of
the largest reinforcement of mission
aries ever sent by the American Board
will begin at the meeting of the
Cousins Society at Kawaiahao Semin-
airy this evening. Tomorrow evening
union jubilee service will be held in
Fort Street Church, when the Rev. w.
Oleson will preach sermon appropriate
to the occasion Monday will witness
general gathering of all interested on
the grounds of Oahu College, the day
to be spent in social reunion, and
listening to papels especially prepared
by the honored survivors of the mission.
The programme for the days proceed
ings will be published in the HERALD
| of that morning. }f
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A. B, n, 5. CAROLINE.
Arrived Yesterday from South American
Waters---To Remain Ten Days.
Then Sail for British Co.
lumbia---A Baronet
in Command.

Her Brittanic Majestys steamship
Caroline was signalled off Coco Head
between and o'clock yesterday after
noon and about 3 O'Clock slowly steam
ed into the harbor. She is a fine.look
ing barque rugged vessel Of about 600
tons, and looked very trim and gallant
as she passed through the channel to
her anchorage. When off the reef the
Caroline gave royal salute to the Ha-
waiian flag, floating from the shore bat
terry, which was responded to little
later from that place. The steamship
Mariposa, lying at the Pacific Mail
wharf, dipped the United States flag
at the peak as the Caroline passed her,
the latter responding with her ensign
The Caroline was commissioned at
Sheerness on the a7th of January, 1886,
leaving England on the 9TH of March
following for the Pacific station. She
arrived in the Pacific last June. This
season having left Coquimbo, Chile,
on February 24th, none Of the fleet
we're permitted to enter Callao, Peru,
on account Of quarantine for cholera
against Chilean ports. The Caroline
left the fleet on March 5th at sea
arriving at Hilo, Hawaii, on April sth,
whence she sailed on the afternoon o
Thursday last for this port She will
sail hence about the 18th or goth inst
for Esquimault, British Columbia.
The Caroline has at present a com
plement Of ~ officers and men OF
board. She carries fourteen 5-incf
breech.loading guns and eight machine
guns--two four-baneled add two two
bareled Gardner and like number
and class OF Nordenfeldt. Following
is list of the Caroline's officers--
Captain--Sir William Wiseman
Bart.
Lieutenants-Lewis ID. Sampson
Richmond n. Powell, Algernon Gren
fell, John Hutchison.
Sub-Lieutenant-F. Harworth Booth
Staff Surgeon-Mlchael Fitzgerald
Paymaster-Horatio Howell.
Chief Englneer-William II. Ma
thews.
Assistant Paymaster-Robert R
Hastings.
Gunner-James Curtis.
Boatswains-John Bradley, Harr
Costing.
Carpenter Matthew Crowther.
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Cocoa.

The Brisbane, Queensland, Planter
and Farmer for March publishes a re-
port by Consul Bird, Of La Guyara,
Venezuela, on the cultivation of cocoa,
in which there are several points which
may be of interest here, especially as
the conditions of soil and climate
adapted to the plant exist in abundance
on these islands. After description
of the plant and its varieties, the writer
proceeds;
"All authors agree that-(I), The
cocoa is indigenous to the soil Of
America (a), it hourshes in the shade
of the forests, and is developed with
luxuriance at the bases of mountains,
where it is watered by running streams
or near rivers, where the soil is alluvial
or mixed with clay 90, it requires a
Temperature that does not fall below rs
degrees Fair. 1t may, therefore, be
deduced that for its perfect develop
ment cocoa requires shade, warmth and
moisture. Cocoa needs the
lshade OF trees to maintain humid at
mosphere, and 10 preserved the moisture
of the soil II may be LAID
down as safe rule that where the
palm and banana grow naturally the
soil is well adapted to cocoa and
coffee"
Then follow descriptions Of the
methods of seeding, gathering and cul
tiyatlon of the plant. II lands, az
stated, that produce bananas and palm
trees, are suited to the cocoa plant, !
may possibly become one Of the future
home industries of Hawaii.